Implementation of the Quasi - equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model 2 ( QTCM 2 ) : Global 1 simulations and convection sensitivity to free

1 Implementation of the Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model 2 (QTCM2): Global 1 simulations and convection sensitivity to free tropospheric moisture 2 3 Benjamin R. Lintner, Gilles Bellon, Adam H. Sobel, Daehyun Kim, J. David Neelin 4 5 6 Submitted to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 7 October 22, 2012 8 9 Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New 10 Brunswick, NJ, USA 11 2 Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 12 /Météo-France, Toulouse, France 13 Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 14 USA 15 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 16 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 17 Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary 18 Physics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 19 20